The Fox News has reported that a onetime candidate for governor Creigh Deeds has suffered serious injuries in his home in Bath County from a stabbing attack and that a second person at the residence who is believed to be his son is dead, according to a statement by the Virginia State Police.
Deeds 55, was listed in critical condition after he was flown for treatment at UVA Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. The hospital has made a statement saying, “Deeds is in critical condition.”
The Virginia and national Democratic sources who spoke to Fox News cited that Virginia law enforcement authorities as alleging that Deeds` son, Gus, stabbed him before shooting himself.
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Salem Field Office is conducting an investigation into the situation. The authorities were called to the home at 7:25 a.m. local time.
A press conference is scheduled to be held by the police around 12 p.m. local time today about the incident.
Deeds` is a former Bath County prosecutor who was elected to the House of Delegates in 1991 and then went on to the Senate in 2001, after a special election was conducted after the death of Emily Couric.
Deeds also lost a Virginia attorney general race to current Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell by only 400 votes; and in 2009 he lost to McDonnell again.
Deeds` is a rural Democrat who drafted a constitutional amendment which would guarantee Virginians` the right to hunt. He also had support from the National Rifle Association along with other gun-rights advocates.
Deeds` and his wife have been divorced since the 2009 campaign.
The writer of this article is Barbara Kasey Smith and it is based on an Associated Press contributed report as well as a report by Fox News.
Source:
Fox News.Com & a contributed report by Associated Press